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Fox Galleries is proud to announce our representation of Richard Dunlop.

A widely exhibited painter, Richard Dunlop’s rich botanical artworks are intricately detailed as he captures the delicate tension of change, destruction and renewal. Richard Dunlop holds PhDs in the fields of Philosophy from Art from the University of Queensland and the Queensland College of Art respectively, which informs his practice as an artist of international reputation. There is a complexity inherent to his works that captivates the imagination and allows for a decadent visual experience.

Richard Dunlop has had over 43 solo and 45 group exhibitions since 1985. Richard was awarded the winner of the painting category in the Waterhouse Prize (2012) as well as receiving the Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence at a PhD level. He has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize (2008) and in the Glover Prize multiple times. He is represented in both public and private collections nationally and abroad, including the Brisbane City Gallery, Museum of Brisbane, National Library of Australia and the University of Tasmania.

Richard explains, ‘While it should be self-evident to intelligent people that we need to conserve our remaining wilderness areas, relish living with diverse species, express wonder at the prescience of ancient wisdom, and be suspicious of equating ‘new’ art with ‘better’ art for example. But as Kahnweiler (Picasso’s dealer) pointed out, the communication of such must dwell predominantly in an aesthetic realm to have any triumphal effect”.

For further details or to arrange a viewing of Richard’s work please contact Nora or call + 61 3 8560 5487

Fox Galleries is proud to announce our representation of Murray Walker.

Over a long career the artist has absorbed himself in the major international art movements of the twentieth century, from Dadaism to abstract expressionism to urban street art and the shift in the display of the art artifact within a museum context. At the same time, he has become recognised as both a contemporary and heir to the Australian modernist movement centred on Heide, Melbourne

Born in Ballarat, he studied at RMIT in the late 1950’s before moving to London in 1960 to study at the renowned Slade School, receiving a scholarship for further study in Italy during the summer of 1961. Exhibiting since 1963, he has become acclaimed internationally, while remaining relatively under the radar in Australia.

Nationally, Murray Walker is held in the collections of the National Gallery Australia, Canberra; The Mitchell Library, Sydney; Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne; Artbank, Sydney and Melbourne; numerous state and regional galleries; and numerous important private and company collections.

Internationally he is held in the collections of the British Museum, United Kingdom; the Picasso Museum Archives, France; the Munch Museum, Norway; the Smithsonian Institute, United States; and the Deutsches Historisches National Museum, Germany.

In May 2021 Fox Galleries will present ‘Spanning Time,’ the first major Australian gallery exhibition for the artist for a decade. It is apt to now present a survey of this continually inventive artist, following a year where for many, it was not possible to view an exhibition at all.

Fox Galleries would like to congratulate Robert Andrews for his ambitious work featured as part of Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. The Macfarlane commission program is a philanthropic initiative in honor of Donald Macfarlane to support emerging and mid-career artists. The 2020 Macfarlane funds are in support of major new works by Robert Andrew, Mimosa Echard, Sidney McMahon, Sam Petersen and Isadora Vaughan.

Robert Andrews ‘Tracing Inscriptions,’ 2020 is a kinetic installation presented at  ACCA until 14 March, 2021. The heart of this technological machine is the kinetic string instrument that mechanically operates around a 100 hanging strings that fall down the wall of the gallery. At the end of the string apparatus, are embered bark; collected from the Queensland bushfires, tenderly balanced by the weight of hanging rocks. As the charcoal moves across the gridded wall there is a building of story through the residue left behind. The drawings are an intentional visual representation of intangible language, based on letter correspondence from his Grandmother exploring lost language and interpretation. As the exhibition progresses, so do the marks on the walls, rocks fall to the ground and make their own elegant landscapes.

To find out more about this exhibition, please visit
https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/overlapping-magisteria-the-2020-macfarlane-commissions/

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Andrew is an artist of mixed heritage, a descendant of the Yawuru people from the Broome area in He holds a bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art and an Honours Degree in Fine Arts from Griffith University, where he is currently a postgraduate candidate for a Doctorate in Visual Arts.

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Congratulations to Esther Erlich for being selected as a finalist in the Kilgour Prize 2020 for her painting Nooch. Since 2006, the Kilgour Prize has encouraged innovation within portrait and figurative painting. In 2020, the prize is now in its tenth year.

Esther Erlich is a Melbourne based artist celebrated for over three decades for her distinctive portraits. Expressive and alluring, Erlich’s figures demand attention from their viewers. Her provocatively beautiful faces are vivid apparitions above abstracted bodies that exist in no space or time.

Esther Erlich has had over 51 solo and 72 group exhibitions since 1983. She won the prestigious Doug Moran Portrait Prize (1998), the People’s Choice Award, Archibald Prize (2000) and has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize and the Portia Geach Memorial Award multiple times. She is represented in both public and private collections nationally and abroad, including the CAE Victoria, Performing Arts Museum, National Portrait Gallery, ALP Building A.C.T., and the National Library Canberra.

Congratulations to Nigel Sense for being selected as finalist for the 2020 Collie Art Prize with his work ‘Saturday Night on the Turps’ (2019).

This years Collie Art Prize explores the theme of Identity. In Sense’s social commentary he explores the regulation of social media, ownership rights over digital content and the presentation of life and travel that we see in our social media feeds. The symbols in Sense’s work are a language constructed from meaningful encounters in his own life and travel. Employing a playful disruption of the masks we wear, Sense ponders whether, as a society, we can function without them.

Nigel Sense is a graduate of the University of Wollongong. His work is frequently selected for major awards; most recently: Salon De Refuses (Finalist, 2019), Mosman Art Prize (Finalist, 2018), Black Swan Art Prize (Finalist, 2017), Mosman Art Prize (Finalist, 2017) and the Kilgour Art Prize (Finalist, 2017).

Fox Galleries is proud to announce our involvement in the Bid for Bushfire Relief; a major fundraiser auction hosted by Australia’s leading multi-category auction house Leonard Joel.

Leonard Joel has joined forces with leading figures from Melbourne’s art world and beyond with the auction featuring extraordinary donations from prominent artists, collectors, gallerists, and jewellers.

Donating artists from Fox Galleries include Emilie Heurtevent, Victor Rubin, Christine Johnson, Esther Erlich, Mark Davis, Chonggang Du, Shannon Smiley, Eddie Botha and Wayne Fogden.

Michael Fox will be donating artworks from his private collection, including works by Mike Chavez, Maz Dixon, and Matthew Clarke. 

The auction will take place in Melbourne on Sunday 16 February with 100% of proceeds to be donated to The Victorian Bushfire Appeal.

Read more about the auction here.

View Fox Galleries’ contribution here.